Johan Gustaf Sandberg-Bengt Erland Fogelberg

Bengt Erland Fogelberg, also known as Benedict Fogelberg, (8 August 178622 December 1854) was a

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sculptor.

Biography

Fogelberg was born in

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. His father, a copper-founder, encouraging an early exhibited taste for design, sent him in 1801 to

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, where he studied at the school of art. There he came much under the influence of the sculptor

Johan Tobias Sergel Johan Tobias Sergel (; 7 September 1740 in Stockholm – 26 February 1814 in Stockholm) was a Swedish neoclassical sculptor. Sergels torg, the largest square in the centre of Stockholm and near where his workshop stood, is named after him. Life ...

, who communicated to him his own enthusiasm for antique art and natural grace. Fogelberg worked hard at Stockholm for many years, although his instinct for severe beauty rebelled against the somewhat

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quality of the art then prevalent in the city. Endnote: See Casimir Leconte, ''L'Œuvre de Fogelberg'' (Paris, 1856). In 1818 the grant of a government pension enabled him to travel. He studied from one to two years in Paris, first under

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, and afterwards under the sculptor

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, for the technical practice of sculpture. In 1820 Fogelberg realized a dream of his life in visiting Rome, where the greater part of his remaining years were spent in the assiduous practice of his art, and the careful study and analysis of the works of the past. Visiting his native country by royal command in 1854, he was received with great enthusiasm, but nothing could compensate him for the absence of those remains of antiquity and surroundings. He died suddenly of

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on 22 December 1854. He is buried at Östra kyrkogården in Gothenburg. The subjects of Fogelbergs earlier works are mostly taken from classic mythology, such as Apollo Citharede, Venus and

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(1839) and

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(1854). His

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(1831),

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(1842), and

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(1842), were influenced by Greek art, although showing independent imagination. His portraits and historical figures, as those of

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(1849), of Charles XII of Sweden, Charles XII (1851), of

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(1852), and of

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Jarl, the founder of Stockholm (1853), are faithful and dignified works. He sculpted the

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of King Charles XIV John (Karl XIV Johan) located at Slussplan on

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Gallery

File:Oden, 1830, by Bengt Erland Fogelberg, carrara marble. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.jpg, Oden, 1830, by Bengt Erland Fogelberg, carrara marble. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden File:Helen, consort of Menelaos, by Bengt Erland Fogelberg, carrara marble. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.jpg, Helen, consort of Menelaos, by Bengt Erland Fogelberg, carrara marble. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden File:Statue of Charles XIV John at Slussplan, Stockholm.jpg, Equestrian statue of Karl XIV Johan, in Stockholm File:Uppsala36.JPG, Bust of Karl XIV Johan, in Uppsala

References

Other sources

Biography
@ the '' Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon''

External links

More works by Fogelberg
@ ArtNet {{DEFAULTSORT:Fogelberg, Bengt Swedish male sculptors 1786 births 1854 deaths Artists from Gothenburg Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts